The Sun. — London, England, 1808-03-31 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P4IRLIAMEN2. HOUSE OF PEERS. WEDNESDAT, MARCH 30. Several Bills on the table were forwarded in their Tespe&ive stages. Sir JACOB ASTL,EY, Mr. CALCOART, and several other Members of the House of Commons, brought Up some private Bills, which were read a first time. The hearing of the Appeals sespeaing the Rox bargh Estates, was, on the motion' of the LORD CHANCELLOR, fixed for Friday, the Bth of April.— Adjourned. KOVS,E OF COMMONS. HiEHNESDAY, MARCH 30. Mr. FAKE, Chairman of the Committee on the Christchurch Ele&ion, reported that the Sitting .Members, George Rose and W. Sturges Bourne, Esquires, were duly eleCted, and that the Petition . against them was frivolous and vexatious. Sir JOHN Nswpoter,gave notice, that he would to-morrow move for an Account of all Offices graut ed in reversion in Ireland, of for joint lives, with benefit of survivorship. Mr. Johnston, from the Office' of the Chief Se cretary for Ireland,,' presented Copies of the Cor respondence of the Chief Secretary with . Donor Dunn, relative to the College of Maynooth, and the Establishments in foreign Countries' for the Educe tien of Catholic Priests, Oa the motion of 'General STUART, the Order for the Consideration of the Doitcgal Eledion Pe tition was deferred till Tuesday, the 3d of May. *Mr. caley, from the Record Office, presented the Report of the Proceedings of theCortimissioners for the preservation of these documents, so far as re !Mei to Scotland. The Order of Council Indemity Bill was report ed, and ordered to . be read a third timeqo-morrow. On the motion of Mr. HusxissoN, a Committee was appointed to make an estimata of the alloWanees to be made to Militia Officers. The'CuANCELLOR of the EXCIiEQUER gave no tice, that he would on .Friday move for leave to bring in a Bill to consolidate the 10 per Cent. Taxes on the Assessed Taxes, and to regulate the collec tion of these taxes. In answer to an inquiry from Mr. Calcraft, whe ther any step was yet taken, or intended to be taken, by his Majestysl.Nlinisters, upon the important Re port that had been some time on thu table, relative to' the Medical Board. the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER said, his attention had been but re cently called to the . subjea, and that he had not yet made up 'his mind upon it. He hoped to be able to come to a determination by. the meeting after the recess. On the motion of. Mr. Flusmsscx it was order ed, that the House should to-morrow resolie itself into a Committee to consider of the propriety of prohibiting the exportation of goods from Ireland, without giving bond for the due landing of the same in the places for which . the, , Ships clear out. putiLiti? Plmtcr.. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY moved , the Order of the Day OA the Second reading of the aublin Police Bill. _ _ Mr, Sli.4ll 7 said, the Bill was only that momeet put into .his hauds, and as he conceived that it tend ed to violate the charter of the City of publin, he could not give his con Ont to the second reading, at least he wished that tiptile t ime should be allowed be, fore the second rea:ting. 6ir A. „WELLESLEY said, he had no wish whatever to hurry' the Bill forward, but:as.it must be obvious that the Bill could' not be understood till the Blanks were filled up, he wished that the Bill should be read. a second tirtie, and committed for that purpose. Time would be then given for Gen denten w n sult with their constiments.upon the subject. and it .would be then otsen to them to Ojai either to the principle, or to any of the Clauses of the Bill. BETIESFORD. said, that though, in his opinion, this Bill trenched direetly upon the charter of the City of Dublin, yet he should' not noWoppOse this motion, because it Was necessary that the blanks 'should be tilled up in a Committee, before the whole ()fate Bill could be understood, He wished very much that the House could have a copy 'of the Charter `of the City of Dublin before iltem, beconse by that' Charter no person Could exercise the office of Magistrate" in that City who were not of the CorpOratim ; now the present • Bill proposed to vio- Jate the Charter in.that partiehlar, • t,nd NCELLOR , of Me EXCHEQUER said, chat as it wott agreed on all• bands that the Bill could not he perfealy understood until all the blanks . were tilled eels, 'he' thought it would be better to postnone thediscusqlon of the .Bill until that period. Mr. GaarraN concurred in opinion with the flight Hon. Gentlemam He did not mean to ph t dge himself' either to support or oppose the Bill, but he thott,;ht •it absoluhdy necessary that the'Bill should be made intelligible, by having the blanks filled up ; he therefore should concur in , the'Mution; Sir 4. WELLESLEY, in reply to what had fallen fruit Mr. Beresfurd, said, that his Honoura ble Friend seemed to base forgotten that, by almost all the Police Bells which had been passed for the City of Ditelin, persons had been appointed to ad as• Magistrates who did nut belong to the Corpora tion,, and consequently the Charter had. been in su Much violated. The re were at present per,ons ercisin:; the office of Magistrates in Dublin who had no coonehion whatever with the Corporation. JOHN NEWPORT said he by no means • ogrted in ,opiniOn with some of the Gentlemen wild had preceded him,, who seemed to think that t h e peace and security of the metropolis of Ireland was not to be• put in competition with a Charter of a Carpf.raion. • the, Corporation could not preserve tie Polite of the City, it. by no. means I;)th),,,vot that it must therefore be left without any Police at all. The SPE/AD:Tilt here fil.tte,l, (but ':'poet looking into the atibjeat: he found that, by rut °Mee of the House, ao interval of 21 days tuti,t intervene le tweca the first and second readiug it private Bids relating to Ireland; diul as the'llilt 11,0: before the !louse was a private Bill it lull withal that regula tion. Bat was proposid to dlloW,the interval cif e t days after the Committee, when the blanki coal be all filled up, instead of. atter the first Yearkig, it was competent to the House, for the DOWNPATRICK PETITION. Mr. LUSIIINGTON understanding from public rb port, that expresses were dispatched at the public expence for the witnesses wanted by one of the parties on the ar.vnpatrick Ele6lion, wished to know whether the 'report was founded in fats. Sir A. Wt.i.,Est.lay said, the report was not founded in la6t.---Adir,ntriled„• " ' _ • MM LS. Durs—sGottenburgn, z Dublin, 4 Waterford. PRICE 01. - Sl'Of..:KS rms DAY Ar 1 IVIELV O'CLOCK. Consols - - . Cliri purpose of convenience, ,to dispense wilk its twn Order. If that was the opinTon of the Howie, pro- i bably some Gentleman wonld notice of a Motion to dispense with the Standirig Order on this occasion. Sir A. WELLESLEY gave notice - that he wouhl make a motion to that et e& this day, and the. motion for the second reading of the 13111 of course dropt. L 0 ND n N, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1808. WE stated . on Friday last, that the Captain and crew of a Portuguese Vessel, who laid made their escape from Flushing and arrived in this Country, mentioned that a report was very current in Flush betUre they came away, of an action having taken place in the Mediterranean, in which the English had obtained a decisive victory, but that Sir SIDNEY SMITH was killed. In communicating this : report to our Readers we expressed our conviaion that the latter part of it, viz. that which related to the death of Sir S. SMITH was unfounded, but at the same time we stated, that we considered it as highly probable that an engagement bad taken place in the Mediterranean. Yesterday Letters from' Holland of the 28th were received, which 'con tained a repetition of this report, except that instead of Sir S. SMITH, Sir R. STRACHA ti was said to have been killed ; and, it was added, that Nine Sail of the Line' had been taken. Inde pendent of this intelligence from • Holland, we think there are very strong reasons for believing that an Engagement has taken place in the Mediterra nean ; and if an Engagement has taken place, we feel no uneasiness as to the result. The Spanish Squadron sailed from Carthagena -on the loth of February, and they did not reach Palmas 13ay till the ead, and, were seen there as late as the 26th. Sir. RICHARD STRACHAN passed Alboraii,, which is a little to the westward of Carthagena„ on the 11th of the same month, working up the Mediter ranean against a contrary wind. The Carthagena Squadron was, we know, sew by the hydra, a n d others of our Cruizera, for several days. It appears therefore scarcely possible that Sir RICHARD, in stretching backwards and forwards across the Me diterranean, beating against an Easterly wind, could avoid falling in with some of our Cruiz els, and getting intelligence of the Spanish Fleet. The Bay of Palmas, it is perfealy well known, 6 : int open bay. We think, therefore, there is every reason to believe that Sir RICHARD did obtain intelligence of the situation of the Spanish Fleet, and having obtained that intelligence, we are sure be would not hesitate to attack them. We trust, there fore, that we shall very shortly have to announce to, the ,public another brilliant viCiory„ fur in "naval language, an enget;entent and a victory are n ow sy nuniinous terms. WR have received Pari.s Pipers of a very late date, fiimn which •we have, made/ some Extracts. The KING Of PRUSSIA has published a Declaration, prohibiting all interconts* between Prussiaand Swe den. I✓iis :IiUSSIAN MAJESTY does not, in this De claration, oven insinuate that Sweden has been guilty tit any at't Of -iggression 'against him, or that he 114 S any grievance.to comphin of) he merely states, that he has beep solicited by the Courts of Petersburg• h and 'Paris to extend the same measure against SWeded vi bleb bad been taken against England, and with this solicitation his Prussian Majesty found it luxes , nary to comply. and the renown of their Country. "If we could ahVayfi, be sure of such men," said the Noble Lord , "we need not be desirous of any better." He ob served, that the itlveiuurous, those who were not in 'dined to habits. of peaceful industry—those who, as Dr. JOHNSON says, " hang loose on society," • and even the profligate, are the men most fit to make good soldiers. And who that is at all ac quainted with human nature can deny the truth of these observations ? The Noble Lord very properly asked, if, instead of men Of this descriptiou,we should take the manufaeturer from his loom, and other ar tifieers from their useful laboUrs; when we could get men of the other description, whosebad qualities might be einploYed to 'the advantage, of their coon= try, since they would be put under some restraint by their military. habiti, would render vice subservient to public duty ? Such werq the sen timents really urged by Lord NlELyiu.ti' ih the de bate alluded' to, and `they are the: Jesuit' of good sense and knowledge of the world,.however they may be misrepresented' by his iolitical adversaries, or his personal enemies. • . , Yesterday, about , twelve o'clock; hi, MAJarry ar, rived at the Queen's Palace from Whither. At two o'clock a Deputation from -the Corporation of the :City of London-arrived, with. the Address voted last Friday in ComMOn Council, upon the state of Fublie Affairs. The Deputation 'consisted of - The Lord Mayor, who came in his full robes, and in the state carriage ? accompanied .by his Chaplain, with the Mace end Sword of State; Aldermen Earner, Birch, Price, Shaw, Leighton, Perring, f lower, Doraville, Hunter, Boydell, Smith, and Glynn; the Sherila; the Recorder, &c. am' On the Deputation being introduced to his MA , . J ESTI, the Recorder read the Address, to which Lord HAwxasaultv, as Secretary of State for the Home Departenent, read. his. MAJESTY'S most gra cious • Answer. Alderman .11tacit was introduced: to hiS MAJa4- TY by Lord HAWKESEVAY, upon his ele6tiog, and had the honour to kiss his MAJ ESTY'S hand, as bad all the Aldermen, ,and most of 'the Gentle Men corn- . posing the'Deputation. Mr. Sheriff PHILLIPS had . the additional honour of Knighthood conferred upon bins by his .MAJ ESTY. After this his MAJESTY held a Private Levee, which was. attended by The Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the C-until, the Lord PriVy Seal, the three Secretaries of State, 'the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First. Lord of the Mini ratty, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the ludge!Advo. caw; the Lord Ste Ward of the household, the Duke of Mon trose, fudge Lawrence, Farl Cavan, ViSconnt Lake; Lonti Napier, Redesdale, Somerville, and Heatlitieht; Admirals Sir Saumarez' and Sawyer ; Generals Campbell, Bertie, anti Moore; Colonel French,. Sirs C. Edmonstoue and S. Coned ; Captain Hope, and Mr. Herbeit. The following had the honour of being presented to Ills MAJESTY : Major-General Campbell, upon his being appointed to • the command of the sth Garrison Battalion, and being re movcn to the Stall; General Bettie, upon r his being ap pointed Colonel of the Sgth Regiment, in the room of General Whitelocke ' • lodge Lawrence, upon his being ap pointed a lodge of the . Court of Common Pleas, in the room of judge !Cooke, deceased, upon his tesignation front the Court of King's Bench, by' the Lord Chancel. for ; Rear-Admiral sawyer,- upon his promotion ; Ad miral Sir James Saunirea, upon his being appointed to .a command, by Lord Mulgrave Captain Hope, upon his being appointed first Captain to Admiral Sit lames Sauntarez ; Brigadier-General Moore, upon his being appointed to the command at Newfoundland ; Lord - Napier; upon his being appointed his MajesWs LOrd High Comtni,sioner to the Ge neral Assembly 01 the Church Of Scotland Viscount. Lake, uptin coming to His title; *Lieutenant.Colonel Frencli, upon Ins promotion arid ;appointment upon the s:atilt) America ; Sir Charl,s lidmondstone, upon coining to-his title ; hail Cavan, up ,, n his being appointed Colobel of the 77th kegi-• mans of Foot; Lord Redesdale, upon ins being appointed' a Lord of Trade. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, and gave au diences to the Qabinet Ministers and the Judge Ad vocate, who laid before His MAJESTY the proceed ings at a Court Martial.' Soon atter six o'clock •His MAJESTY set off on his return to Windsor, The ROYAL FAMILY are expe6led in town next, Tuesday, and HER MAJESTY to hold a Drawing room the Thursday following. We are sorry to say the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE of WALES has been confined at her house in Wm - - Wick-street, since Monday, through indisposition.— Her'Reyal Highness complained on Monday tnorn ing,of being unwell ; in consequence Sir WALTER (''Attt3UHAlt was sent ter, and we understandhe pro nounced her ditiorder to he the ineazies. Expresses Were sent off to the PaINCE and PRINCESS of WALES, and THEIR MAJESTIES, with the itifbrma-• lion. We are happy to say her, Royal Highness is in a fair way of doing well. Yesterday the • Cabinet Ministers dined with the Duke of 'POIVA`LAND, at his house in Piccadilly. - The Triumph, Implacabl e , Edgar, and Sirius re ceived orders on Monday last to sail from Plymouth to join the rest of the Fleet in the Downs. - 'Captain Ross DON ELLY is'appointed to the Aria cille, of 74 guns, at Woolwich. Five hundred Gun-boats have already been built in the,Dutch Ports, at the requisition of the French Government, and the, utmost aelivity prevails in getting them ready for sea. The sailing of the first East India Fleet, which was appointed for Saturday, is deferred for a few days. . Ten artillery-waggons came from Croydonyester day to the Bank, and took away specie to the amount of 200,0001. which is to be conveyed to Portsmouth, and there shipped on board a Frigate to Gottenburgh, for the use of the, King of Sweden, being,part of the subsidy granted him. It is said the Duke of KENT'S mansion ,at Knights , bridge, which is now upon sale, has, together with ) 'ts plantations, hut and succession houses &c. cost 1 1 11 E Opposition Prints have endeavoured to e xc it e •• ' his Royal Highness no less a sum than 80,0001. in- Odium against Lord Ithavit,l.B, by gross -mistepre. ,dependent of the 14,0001, expended. on the furni- Actuations of what he said reveal:lg the p e i son i tune and other decorations. Mr. STEPHENS, who lat e ly c am e int o P ar li ament , who were best fitted to enter into the Army The is a considerable iddition to thOndependent class of Noble Lord, in answer to those who maintained its Members, as well as a Gentleman Of great puha, that Mr., WINDII.OI's specious- theory %yip, cal- cal knowledge and well known literary talents. He culated to recruit the Army is brother-in-1m l° Mr. W ILBERFu E CE) to w h ose with a bett er order simor he is married. of men than by the precious mode, 'referred to Yesterday a Court of DiretiorS was held at the the triumph of our soldiers in former tunes, and East India House, when Captain Gt:oitus WELT asked it we could have a better ord er of me n MN, of the took leave of the C o u r t p ev i ous to • departing for Madras and Bengal. 'The C o urt a d. than those who had tip much extended the s treng t journed at six o'clock till to-morrow. I t •ettep (tom Copenhagen of the 12th state, that a list 1124 been uthcially. published ot . the Frenchand Spaiti , ,;h Troops which are marching into Denmark they ;,tauttnE to 32,1i70 men. General haItNADCYI"III, who commands this Army, was expeited at Copen hagen on the NAVAL NEWS. PLY MOLT Tit, MARCH Wed the dittelhrt Frigate,. CNA. SErmouß, from a cruizc, off thy coast of Spain . and Cape Finisterre. Sailed the Alacrity Sloop of War, on a cruise. The Camtrian Frigate went out of Harbour this morning. YARMOUTH, MARCH 30.--This morning W 35 launched from the Dock-yard of Mr. JOHN PRZ TON, a beautiful new Sloop of War pierced for 20 guns. She went off in very fine stile amidst tht acclamations of a concourse of people. SHEERNESS, MARCH 2g.--Sailed His Majesty's Ship Diaator, of 64 guns; for Gottenburgh, with the Swedish subsidy; and His Majesty's Sloop Kan garoo, for the gowns. . Arrived His Majesty's Sloop Tartarus. • Came down the River, His Majesty's Store-ship Serapis, and sailed, and.two ottward-bound India men, for the Downs. , . DEAL, MARCH 30.. Arrived the Escort Gun-brig from the Westward;' Phosphorus Fire-vessel from a cruize; and the Pigeon Schooner from a cruize. Sailed the Cracker Gun-brig on a cruizc, and the Escort Gud-brig for thu sore. Sir SAMUEL Hoon-bas his Flag flying on board the Centaur, of 74 guns. The Implacable, of 7ti guns, is expeaed in the' Downs from the Westward the first fair wind. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 30.--Arrived His Majes ty's Ships Adonis and Flying Fish from a cruize. Sailed His Majesty's Ships Polyphemus, Orion,. Indus, Salcette, Thrasher, Daphne, Insolent, Pro. ,tenor, Steady, Orestes, Redbreast, and Hearty,- for the Downs. HULL, MARCH 29.—The Kite Sloop of War has arrived in the Humber. The Danish Sloops sent in here by the Clio, are strong built vessels, capable of encountering the heavy seas often experienced upon the coast of Nor-: way, and in the Baltic ' • and very suitable for trans .. ' porting troops through the darrow channels of the _Danish islands, or from one part of the coast to the" other. Their cargoes are now landed,'and consist_ of stockfish, oil, candles, cases of ,glass, wood, &c. The Danes possess a grcamptuber of these vessels; and could.soon coiled a sufficient number of them to transport a large army-from Holstein, into Zealand, Finland, &c. Four Vessels were lost on Stoney Binks, at tba: entrance of the Humber, on Wednesday night last: The liremen Packet, late of this port, but now or, London, from thence to the Baltic, with sugar,' coffee, I.c.—The Prosperity, WALKER, of London, loaded with deals, &c.—The Aurora, YourtG.;.-and a Swede,' name unknown. The crew of the Bre men Packet were all saved; but, it is feared the crews of the rest have perished. Part of one of the Vessel's drove on shore on the end of Spurn Point , on Thursday morning; and part of the cargo of the Pitifierity, near Marsh Chapel. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE.MONEY. To the Harlequin, for the capture of the I onge Roelf Pot man, on board, at Plymouth, on the t4th April, and after. wards at Hingston's Office, Falmouth. To the Gun-brig Resolute, for the recapture of the Isa bella, on bard, at Cork, it in port, on the ,4th April, and afterwards at Hingston's Office, Falmouth, and Tirornas'as Plymouth Dock. To the Albion Cutter, for the recapture of the Favourite. at No. 21. A rundeListreet, for Owe months. To the Achille, for the capture al the Cxsar French Cor vette (in company with a Squadron of his MaiestY' s S bi l"l at No. .0, Fore-street, Plymouth Dock, every 'l' ticstlay ant . , Saturday, for three 111013t113. • m T nn o da t y ll e and !l e T a r i t i y u r G ul u a n y . f la b r r ig , threefor t h e ino rc, u ths a r t eif : t t ,a Sloop L'Aimable Marianna, on her arrival in High-street. 'Portsmouth. To the Exertion Gun-firm, for the capture Of th is e l . ° C . b a ar 4- lotte Louisa, on her artivdl in port, anti every Wedn" cis t and Thursday after, for three months, at No. 9 , New Boa - ' Str 4 e f i l . the Seagull Sloop, for the recapture of the h t an Fren ch Transport trig (in company with the Monkey Gun-blV)i",; ( 1 board, on her arrival in port, and every Wednesday Thursday after, for three months, at No. 9, New BrO4C street. To the hired Armed Cutter Harlequin, for thecaplui re ei of the Galatea, on her arrival in port, and every wetl"" 1 and Thursday after, for three months, at No. 9, New 13roart st st reet. • h and To the Niger, for the capture of the Gustaf Ado ) P" , San loseph, at No. Is, ['cell-street, Strand, on the 355 1 , and for three years, at the same plate. To thu Pallas, tor the captcoe of La Virgin del Rosario.,, and Thursday, s t d h a e y t hree , D f o o n r ega l t) y a e ( a l r - I d c'.: t at No. 9, New Amphitrite, at No. ro, Essex-street, Strand, every hisday ner v L'Armide, and Thursday. for three years. tt,hearsitiameevpeirayceW. Wednesday To the Achille, fo h ; K th t e h c e ap ca ti p a t e u the Achille, on the ; tat inst. and for three months alter; at No. 70, Great Russel-street, fur Mee' MHOS. Corer 4;lifet:erenSeilhanFisrli)gartensSa[a L'lntatigable, and La Gloire, on boar A remarkable Occurtence took place on Tuesdel morning at Spithead. A man, belonging to the Sakette frigate, was sentenced to beilogged through the Fleet for thieving. The boats ,froin all the M ere ea of War, as is costomary upon those occasions, w assembled ; when, at the moment the punishreent was abotit,to be ingided, he jumped overboard) and was nevertfterwardS seen. It is conjectured he oti previously concealed some shot in hi.. poc kets, to Prevent the possibility of rising again in the water. Further accounts have been received from LiibOn to the 4th of March. The intelligence we comnlw nicated from thence in yesterday's Paper i s full y coo' firmed. It is added, that many of the poor Inha. bitants were dying daily in the streets. Au Awe' rican Vessel bad entered Lisbon with a care of flour. When General JUNOT hear d of tk C cumstanee, he wrote a letter to the American on. sul, requesting to have it at the rate of 2b' (W a i f s per barrel; to which the Consul repl ied, that had been offered at the rate of 32 dollars per h eT by the iithabitants; the General rejoined, dotY r' ° must have the cargo notwithstanding , U nle ss a pa he had suit 9tai forage should happ en wi!b fully snptiy. to retara en • TII E SUN. 1101.11 M QVIt DICERS !MAIM AUDtAT ?